This machine, The Cray 2 Super Computer, is probably the sexiest computer ever built. ‘Computers’ form shouldn’t entirely come out their function: they should look cool too’, so said the company brochure in 1985, fromContinue reading
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Analog Computing Machine
Analog Computing Machine. This is an early version of the modern computer. The device is located in the Engine Research Building at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, now John H. Glenn Research Center, Cleveland Ohio. PhotographerContinue reading
Data Processing Computer
Two female computer operators process data on an early analog computer. 1976 Photographer Unknown.
Commodore PET
Publicity still for a Commodore PET (Personal Electronic Transactor) personal computer. 1977.
Penril Modem Ad
Back in the day you could get away with blatant sexism in advertising! Advert for the Penril Modem from the mid eighties.
IBM 729 Computer
The IBM 729 Magnetic Tape Unit was IBM’s iconic tape mass storage system from the late 1950s through the mid-1960s. This photo was made at Camp Smith, Hawaii. PFC Patricia Barbeau operates one of theContinue reading
Mind Over Matters Commodore Ad
1979 advertisement for the PET™ (Personal Electronic Transactor) home computer, by Commodore.
ENIAC Computer
ENIAC, built during World War II, started as a secret collaborative project between the US Army and the University of Pennsylvania Moore School of Electrical Engineering. The Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer was the first electronicContinue reading
Woman Using A Pantograph
A woman is pictured using a Hollerith pantograph in 1920, a machine developed for the punching of cards providing data which could then be processed. Such tools were used in the 1890 United States Census, theContinue reading
Radar Display
Personnel inside the data processing centre for Cobra Dane, an intelligence gathering phased-array radar system specially constructed to monitor Soviet ballistic missile testing on Siberia’s Kamchatka Peninsula in he 1970’s. This image was created inContinue reading
Man-Machine Interface Factors
A surreal, psychedelic drawing found in the Bell Telephone Magazine (1976), used to illustrate an article on humans versus computers.
MERA 300 Mini Computer
MERA 300 was a polish-built 8-bit mini computer family. It was first introduced in 1974 at the Poznań Trade Fair and Exhibition.
IBM Electronic Data Computer
Man and woman shown working with IBM type 704 electronic data processing machine used for making computations for aeronautical research.
Cray Y 190A Super-computer
The Cray Y 190A Supercomputer at the NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California.